The innovative part of the mission, however, is the large solar sail it would unfurl once it's in space. This would be the spacecraft's sole means of maneuvering and propulsion to reach and ...

Solar sailing, the most common version ... but even understanding how the physics of a light sail will work over such large distances is difficult. So, the researchers at Caltech, led by postdoc ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...